>>Joseph Zorzin <redoak at forestmeister.com> wrote:
>>>Other states may have REAL forester licensing laws, but not
>>the lame state of Massachusetts
>>I don't think other states have REAL forester licensing either--except maybe
>California. The basic problem is that our "professional leadership" in the
>SAF
>and even the ACF don't want REAL licensing.
>>The bureaucrats don't want it and the academics don't care--for the reasons
>outlined in my comments at http://www.forestmeister.com/regs.html. And many
>of
>the industrial/corporate types don't want it because of their ideas about
>property rights.
>>The result is either no licensing, or PHONEY licensing like we have proposed
>here in MA. From what I saw recently on the PA consultants' website, it
>looks
>like they're about in the same situation as MA.
>>Karl Davies